http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/ Engadget Comments for Yamaha brings the style with A-S700 / CD-S700 audio components http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
I'm glad this is back. I think it's classic and it has always looked good with a very solid high end feel. Find some of those old components and pick them up. You don't get that build quality these days unless you go with the very high end stuff.]]>Oct 9th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
Of course, I also liked the black-background tuning dial with the "fluorescent" numbers & indicator.]]>Oct 9th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
It's just that I would with, because that's what any reasonable person would do!]]>Oct 9th 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
This setup is almost perfect, all that's needed is a pair of multifunction analog meters on the left.]]>Oct 9th 2008 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
Do you know the inordinate lengths Yamaha and others went to make the volume control feel solid? Since people judged an amplifier by the feel of the volume knob, and to a lesser degree, the thickness of the faceplate, it was a necessity to make the volume control as big and bad-ass as possible. The thing is the cheap potentiometer that the volume knob actually controlled had no tactile feedback, so it all had to be done with weights and pulleys, flywheels and so forth behind the faceplate.]]>Oct 9th 2008 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
Sadly, there's no reason to buy high-quality audio components anymore, except perhaps to watch movies. Why? Dynamic compression. All music mastered (and, even more insidiously, remastered) after the mid-'90s is crushed into a wall of noise that assaults your ear with maximum volume every millisecond. The result is that people just aren't into their favorite music anymore. It's simple fatigue.

The most infuriating part is that record companies are doing this FOR NO REASON, and they're destroying their entire back catalogs an album at a time. The destruction has only accelerated with the increasing popularity of purchased downloads.

The record companies have worked overtime to destroy their customer base, and now they are literally destroying every recording they possess.

So really, there are no recordings being sold today (with the possible exception of some classical) that warrant anything better than a cheap Best Buy stereo.]]>Oct 9th 2008 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 12th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://store.acousticsounds.com/ ]]>Oct 9th 2008 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
My hovercraft is full of eels.]]>Oct 9th 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
long live the classic high-end looks!]]>Oct 9th 2008 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/Oct 9th 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
http://www.thevintageknob.org/VFET/B2/B2.html#]]>Oct 9th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
But really, 2.1 is such a niche' market these days. Most mid-to-high-end Dolby amps can pull this off just fine (although I admit my Sony 7.1 kinda sucks in stereo, but that may also be my lackluster main speakers. I wonder what it would sound like with B&W's...).]]>Oct 9th 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
The money must be put on speakers first, the rest isn't as important...]]>Oct 9th 2008 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/yamaha-brings-the-style-with-a-s700-cd-s700-audio-components/
What you're revealing is a serious reading-comprehension deficit.

"..that warrant anything better than a cheap Best Buy stereo." shows that you're also a bit out of touch."

Overly broad, perhaps, but essentially true and becoming more so by the day. Yes, there are specialist vendors, but they can offer only a tiny fraction of popular music. And the one you linked to offers (amongst smaller-label issues) pressings from major labels, which are often wrecked even if they're sold in "audiophile" formats like DVD-Audio or SACD. Have you checked out the remaster of Brothers in Arms? Incredibly, this digital recording (which was once included with Sony CD players as a demonstration of digital dynamic range) was dynamically COMPRESSED for "audiophile" reissue.

That's how out of touch the record industry is, and the worst part is that there's no way we'll ever get the record companies or the consumers to recognize this widespread but esoteric-sounding scourge.]]>Oct 9th 2008 11:18PM